Everything posted by Hurlshort
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Cinema and Movie Thread: flickering images
I think Jennifer Lawrence is J-Law. I hate that I know these things. I also realized that with Air and The Mother, I basically spent the weekend with Bennifer.
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Cinema and Movie Thread: flickering images
The Mother - J-Lo kills people to protect her daughter. We watched on mother's day, so it fit the vibe, I guess. It was pretty average, but the acting was decent. Just don't think about the villains too hard. Joseph Fiennes is always fun to see. Air - This was a phenomenal telling of how Nike hitched their train to Michael Jordan. Excellent cast led my Matt Damon and Ben Affleck. It was extremely good. It felt a bit like Glengarry Glen Ross, for some reason. I think just because it was so well acted.
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More Hardwood + Round Holes = Lots of Scoring in Basketball 2K19
I'm not sure how the current postseason proves that. The Warriors were a flawed team all season long and that played out pretty clearly in the playoffs. The Lakers overhauled their lineup and got hot after the All-Star break, and that carried into the playoffs as well.
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Tim Cain's YouTube channel
This comment is gold when you realize that Hoonding is JE Sawyer's burner account.
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More Hardwood + Round Holes = Lots of Scoring in Basketball 2K19
It sounds like he has bruised ribs and will probably be limited in the game. That could be a pretty big blow, since he was fantastic last game. They'll either need one of the young guys to step up, or hope Klay or Poole get hot enough where they don't really need his all around great play.
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More Hardwood + Round Holes = Lots of Scoring in Basketball 2K19
I was pretty excited at the chance for the Warriors to beat KD in the conference finals, but I guess I will have to settle for the Warriors outlasting him in the 2nd round. Also this AD health thing is weird. I never wish for a player to get injured and I'm glad he is cleared to play, but he was looking super woozy and had to use a wheelchair to leave the floor.
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Random/Interesting/Weird
Gfted before his MRI.
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unpopular gaming opinions - here's mine, share yours
Difficulty modes in games directly reflect your mental health. Easy = Happy Normal = Normal Hard = Using games to get over trauma Nightmare = Criminally disturbed
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More Hardwood + Round Holes = Lots of Scoring in Basketball 2K19
It's interesting how we are getting a resurgence of the dominant center. Jokic, Embiid, and Anthony Davis have had a huge impact in the playoffs this year. That being said, we haven't had a lot of titles won recently by a center dominant team.
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What You've Done Today - Don't do today, what you can get someone else to do tomorrow
Oh man, I had a presenter earlier this week with a hundred tabs open and it gave me anxiety.
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Cinema and Movie Thread: flickering images
I thought this must be wrong, but then I looked at the list of Burton movies since Mars Attack! and it is fairly limited. In his defense though, a lot of the movies he has made since the 90's are geared towards kids. Corpse Bride, Frankenweenie, Alice in Wonderland, and Miss Peregrine are all very good family fare. I have no idea what Big Eyes is, and I have no interest is Dumbo, so I guess it really has been slim pickings for the last decade. Strange. Michael Keaton will make it worth a watch, though, so I'm not worried about Beetlejuice 2 being bad.
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What are you Playing Now? - Games don't make you violent, lag does
Picked up Space Haven on GoG. As a kid, I would always build spaceships with legos. It wasn't too fancy, I'd just take the base plates and connect them, and then build quarters and engine rooms and a bridge. This game lets me do that. The nice thing is it lets you control characters directly for certain events like exploring ships. It's a pretty fun game.
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What are you Playing Now? - Games don't make you violent, lag does
That is time spent bonding with your crew. At least they added the fast travel posts to the towns. When I played a year ago, they didn't even have that. I'm surprised they don't have a way to retire and get an ending, but I'm not close to that point yet. Also, did you use pitons to speed up travel around the map? You can make quite a few shortcuts that way.
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Historical misrepresentation of race in documentaries\movies, whats your view?
White folks been playing minorities for over a century, so I'd say this is no big deal. I hope Egypt got upset about this abomination as well.
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What You've Done Today - Don't do today, what you can get someone else to do tomorrow
In Canada, the fridges have to be resistant to Moose attacks.
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More Hardwood + Round Holes = Lots of Scoring in Basketball 2K19
He is a force. Last year the Warriors had to surround him with 5 defenders to slow him down even a little. This year is very retro. Harden is winning games. Lebron is back in it. I'm enjoying watching all the old guys try and get one more shot at it. These guys are all in their mid-30's, so we are getting close to the end of the era. Enjoy it while it lasts.
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More Hardwood + Round Holes = Lots of Scoring in Basketball 2K19
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Curry is still pretty good for an old man. Looks like the beam will have to wait another year.- What You've Done Today - Don't do today, what you can get someone else to do tomorrow
People are blithely unaware of the fact their 2-ton vehicle with 200 horsepower is extremely dangerous. I swam 100 yards, rode 50 miles, and ran 5 miles today. It felt pretty good, so hopefully I am ready for the Morro Bay Half Ironman in a few weeks.- Random video game news... RNG says "Nope"
I can't tell the difference between that and actual Bethesda writing. 😆- More Hardwood + Round Holes = Lots of Scoring in Basketball 2K19
I know a lot of people have issues with Draymond Green, but he basically controlled Game 5 and got the Warriors the important road win. I'm loving the gray beard taking on all the young Kings.- The Most UNDERRATED Fallout Game Ever
Arcanum is the most underrated Fallout game.- More Hardwood + Round Holes = Lots of Scoring in Basketball 2K19
We are getting some good Cali matchups this season. If Kawhi had stayed healthy, we might even have had a full slate of California games in the West. As is, LA is playing Sac or GSW and it will be a sweet series. I'm hoping for another Lebron versus Steph moment. Basically if the Warriors can win tonight, they probably get to play Lebron next round and KD in the finals. That would be phenomenal.- The All Things Political Topic - new edition
One could argue, but one would still be wrong. But really I'm thankful for a free media, even though that means we end up with vile screaming lunatics on the 'news'. They only exist because they have an audience, and the best way to counter them is to offer that audience a better option. The truth does tend to win out. Building your house on lies and hyperbole is really only going to work in the short term. Eventually it will catch up with you. Both Fox News and CNN are dealing with this to some extent right now. I think they both will survive it, but certain mouthpieces will need to be sacrificed to make it through.- Cinema and Movie Thread: flickering images
I'd say they are trending closer to criminally insane rather than your garden variety terrible Hollywood celebrity. I'm surprised WB went forward with them as the face of the franchise, to be honest. I guess WB figured it was already a sunk cost. - More Hardwood + Round Holes = Lots of Scoring in Basketball 2K19